I've been thinking a bit about the need for mass-installations. Having
done a few of them, it gets to be a tad tedious ...
Currently, the preinst and postinst scripts ask the user questions, and
make changes according to the responses. Instead of that, we need a
general service script that proce
Bryan wrote:
> Illo de' Illis wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 09:12:29AM -0700, Dean Carpenter wrote:
> > > Now during installation, the exim preinst and postinst scripts would
> > > source the install-response file, creating the variables with the
> > > responses they need. At this point,
On 19 May 1999, Dean Carpenter wrote:
> I've been thinking a bit about the need for mass-installations. Having
> done a few of them, it gets to be a tad tedious ...
>
> Currently, the preinst and postinst scripts ask the user questions, and
> make changes according to the responses. Instead of
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 09:12:29AM -0700, Dean Carpenter wrote:
> Now during installation, the exim preinst and postinst scripts would
> source the install-response file, creating the variables with the
> responses they need. At this point, it's just as if they've asked the
> questions and retriev
Illo de' Illis wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 09:12:29AM -0700, Dean Carpenter wrote:
> > Now during installation, the exim preinst and postinst scripts would
> > source the install-response file, creating the variables with the
> > responses they need. At this point, it's just as if they've
Dean Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been thinking a bit about the need for mass-installations. Having
> done a few of them, it gets to be a tad tedious ...
>
> Currently, the preinst and postinst scripts ask the user questions, and
> make changes according to the responses. Instea
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:06:48PM -0400, tony mancill wrote:
[snip]
> On a related note, couldn't we have an environment variable set at
> installation time, e.g. "NON_INTERACTIVE_DPKG=TRUE", and have the
> maintainer scripts check this to see if they should ask questions or not?
> If this variab
>
> Illo de' Illis wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 09:12:29AM -0700, Dean Carpenter wrote:
> > > Now during installation, the exim preinst and postinst scripts would
> > > source the install-response file, creating the variables with the
> > > responses they need. At this point, it's just
tony mancill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For the developers:
>
> On a related note, couldn't we have an environment variable set at
> installation time, e.g. "NON_INTERACTIVE_DPKG=TRUE", and have the
> maintainer scripts check this to see if they should ask questions or not?
> If this variable
Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:06:48PM -0400, tony mancill wrote:
> [snip]
> > On a related note, couldn't we have an environment variable set at
> > installation time, e.g. "NON_INTERACTIVE_DPKG=TRUE", and have the
> > maintainer scripts check this to see
Dean Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been thinking a bit about the need for mass-installations. Having
> done a few of them, it gets to be a tad tedious ...
>
> Currently, the preinst and postinst scripts ask the user questions, and
> make changes according to the responses. Instea
Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dean Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I've been thinking a bit about the need for mass-installations. Having
> > done a few of them, it gets to be a tad tedious ...
> >
> > Currently, the preinst and postinst scripts ask the user questions, a
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 12:24:33PM +0200, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> I'm working on an automatic installation tool. It as almost working.
> I will post more information in the following days. The basic idea
> is to record automatically all the answers given during the first
> installation and retri
On Mon, May 24, 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Wouldn't it be nice if dpkg would tell you what exactly has changed
> between the packages config file and what the difference to your
> config is?
>
> I allways wonder what has changed, since I normally haven't changed
> those files dpkg askes me ab
Michel Kaempf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, May 24, 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be nice if dpkg would tell you what exactly has changed
> > between the packages config file and what the difference to your
> > config is?
> >
> > I allways wonder what has changed, since I
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Michel Kaempf wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be nice if dpkg would tell you what exactly has changed
> > between the packages config file and what the difference to your
> > config is?
> >
> > I allways wonder what has changed, since I
Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 25 May 1999, Michel Kaempf wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 24, 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > > Wouldn't it be nice if dpkg would tell you what exactly has changed
> > > between the packages config file and what the difference to your
> > > confi
Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to:
Jorge Araya (Mailbox or Conference is full.)
Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to:
Jorge Araya (Mailbox or Conference is full.)
Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to:
Jorge Araya (Mailbox or Conference is full.)
Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to:
Jorge Araya (Mailbox or Conference is full.)
Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to:
Jorge Araya (Mailbox or Conference is full.)
Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to:
Jorge Araya (Mailbox or Conference is full.)
Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to:
Jorge Araya (Mailbox or Conference is full.)
Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to:
Jorge Araya (Mailbox or Conference is full.)
Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to:
Jorge Araya (Mailbox or Conference is full.)
26 matches
Mail list logo
